1675. Phillips, William. Studii Legalis Ratio, or, Directions for the Study of Law Under These Heads; the Qualifications or [sic], Nature, Means, Method, Time and Place of the Study. Corrected and Enlarged. London: Printed for F. Kirkman and T. Dring, 1675. [xii], 204 pp. Includes four-page catalogue of books printed for Kirkman. 12mo. (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Later three-quarter calf over marbled boards, recently rebacked retaining lettering piece, hinges mended. Some rubbing to boards and extremities, small chip to top edge of rear board, corners somewhat worn. "F. Pollock/ Lincoln's Inn/ 1886" to front pastedown. Toning, occasional browning, minor worming to title page, dampstains to a few leaves. Occasional annotations in contemporary hand (edges trimmed with minor loss to these notes). A scarce title with an appealing association. * Third and final edition of a well-respected vade mecum first published in 1662. "[This] is a book on the same lines as those written in the preceding period by Fullbecke and Dodderidge. It tells the student something of the kinds of knowledge essential to him...It gives him a little elementary information as to the various kinds and species of laws...and then it goes on to discourse the main features of the common law and its position in the state. It concludes bygiving a list of the chief books on English law which he must study" (Holdsworth). Sir Frederick Pollock [1845-1937] was one of the greatest British judges and legal scholars of his day. His treatises on contracts, jurisprudence, the common law and other subjects did much to clarify and
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. Opaque watercolour on sized parchment, 373 x 298mm., signed lower right: Pinxit Maria S. Merian. A fine original watercolour by Maria Sybilla Merian, showing a blue-and-white decorated Chinese vase placed on a wooden table. The vase is filled with double Pomegranate blossom, Passion flower, Auricula, Tulip, Iris, Garden Nasturtium, Pheasant Eye, Hyacinth, Fritillary, Rosa Mundi, Carnation and Anemone. Two beetles revive the scene. The flower species all occur in Merian's Flower Books which she produced between 1675 and 1679, when she also made some flower bouquets. This flower piece is from the a later date, after her divorse with Johann Graff, when she started to sign with her maiden name, probably from the early 1690's. The bouquet is in a more lively and natural style than in her former period. Signed works by Maria Sibylla Merian are rare. Provenance: Gallery Rafael Valls, catalogue Pictura, Maastricht 1983, p. 40, illustrated. Private collection, Germany: on loan and exhibited in the Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Exhibitions: 'De Tulp en de Kunst', Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam 1994, no. T43, illustrated; 'Maria Sibylla Merian - Artist and naturalist 1647-1717', Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main & Teyler Museum, Haarlem 1998, no. 110, illustrated. Charlotte Jacob-Hanson, 'Martia Sibylla Merian - artist - naturalist', 'The Magazine Antiques', August 2000, p. 175 with pl. II and illustrated on cover..

1675. Antwerpen, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to (198 x 160mm). pp. (38), 396, (20), with engraved frontispiece, 1 folded engraved portrait and 36 (many folded) engraved plates. Contemporary vellum, old handwritten title on spine. Scarce first edition, a reissue appeared 1712. "First edition of the first separate general work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties. L'Escluse has done a study called 'Fungorum in Pannonis Observatorum Historia' which was first published as part of his 'Rariorum Plantarum Historia', 1601. However, according to Nissen, L'Escluse's original manuscript for this treatise with its eighty-seven original drawings had been lost by the publisher, so they had to use other illustrations for the 1611 edition, and these were quite inaccurate. Afterwards the lost manuscript reappeared and Sterbeeck used it as a basis for his work, adding much new material of his own" (Hunt 341). "Frans van Sterbeeck, a Flemish priest of noble extraction, was born and died in Antwerp where he lived for the greater part of his life. During the eight years following his ordination in 1655, while suffering from a chronic illness, he returned his attention to botany, with particular reference to fungi and soon became a recognized expert. He was on friendly terms with other Flemish botanists and in May 1663 was visited by John Ray who admired the rare plants in van Sterbeeck's garden. It was in 1672 that Adriaan David, an Antwerp pharmacist and amateur botanist (he contributed a sonnet to the collection of adulatory tributes to the author which prefaces the 'Theatrum fungor
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First Edition. Full leather cover. G- : in good (minus) condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily rubbed with wear to extremities and spine, Ex library copy with book stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland to the title page. Inner hinges weak but holding. Scattered foxing. Ink inscription to fep. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 130pp + index; 74pp + index. Twelve engraved plates bound in to the rear; additional decorations. Two volumes bound as one. Woodcut title page vignette; woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials. Date of publication precedes publisher and printer statement on title page. In two parts (Hecatostea I and Hecatostea II), each with its own half-title page, pagination and register. Title page followed by a four-page dedication to the "Societas Naturae Curiosorum in Germania" and a two-page preface. Text in Latin with Greek and Hebrew quotes.

1675. Laws Relating to the Stuart-Era Nobility Brydall, John [b.1635?]. Jus Imaginis Apud Anglos; Or the Law of England Relating to the Nobility & Gentry. Faithfully Collected and Methodically Digested for Common Benefit. London: Printed for John Billinger, 1675. [xvi], 76, [1] pp. Copperplate frontispiece. Folding table. Octavo (6-1/2" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, blind rules and gilt ornaments to spine. Light rubbing to extremities, heavier rubbing to spine removing gilding from title and parts of ornaments, spine ends bumped, some wear to head of spine, paper covering of front pastedown loose. Early shelf label and copperplate armorial bookplate (of John Hirey Esq.) to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text, occasional faint dampspotting, light soiling to title page, some edgewear to front endleaves. Tiny early owner signature (of Jonathan Airey) to head of title page, interior otherwise clean. * Only edition. Brydall was a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and a bencher of Lincoln's Inn. A remarkably prolific writer, he published 36 legal treatises, and left 30 others in manuscript at the time of his death. All of these are brief, synthetic works. Holdsworth says they are good summaries that are "clearly arranged and based on the leading authorities." OCLC locates 12 copies in North American law libraries. Holdsworth, A History of English Law VI:605. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 1:203 (9).

London, printed by J. D. to be sold by John Allen, at the White Horse in Wentworth Street, 1675.. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE 1675. Translated from the French by an unknown hand, small 8vo, 111 pages, last page blank, bound in full sheep. Binding rubbed, especially on the spine, the lower edge of the upper cover has a small piece of leather missing, small spilt at top of spine, slight age-browning to prelims otherwise a very good clean copy. ESTC R220611. A second issue was issued the same year with a different imprint: printed by J.D. for Richard Chiswel, at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. POSTAGE AT COST.

London. 1675.. This is the angling section extracted from "The Accomplisht-Ladys Delight", attributed to Hannah Wooley. This is a copy which has been taken apart and laid down on larger paper and ruled in red. The title page is dated 1675 (printed in the year 1675, no imprint), originally a 12mo, now approximately 200 x 125 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, engraved frontispiece of a Lady and Gentleman fishing, an engraving of fish follows the title page, misbound as there is offsetting from it on a page of text which it faced originally, title page and 33 pages, plus 10 blank pages as padding at rear, no pagination as it has been trimmed off with the margins, catchwords correct, bound in half sheep with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, bookbinder's ticket to first pastedown. Binding rubbed, hinges cracked at head of spine, covers still attached, crack between first free endpaper and frontispiece, no loose pages, corners worn with board slightly showing, slight shelf wear, rubbing to covers, small neat repair to first pastedown and first free endpaper, text has pale age-browning with occasional light mark, neat old ink note to blank endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. The last chapter has the heading " The names of the Flyes that are used in Angling, with the Times when they are in Season and what the Bodies and Wings are made of". See T. Westwood & T. Satchell, Bibliotheca Piscatoria, page 128, listing the first edition dated 1675; Arnold Whitaker Oxford, English Cookery Books to the Year 1850, page 37; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, Anonymous Section page 513. WE C
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Paris-Chez Estienne Michallet, 1675. Book. A scarce biographicalaccount of the life of Marie Agnes Dauvaine. With a beautiful full-page portrait of Marie and attractive headpieces. Marie Agnes Dauvaine (1602-1665) was a French nun from Nancy. After being introduced to the Duchess of Mantua, she decided to join the nuns of L'Annonciade Celeste, but faced opposition from her parents. Instead, Marie lived the life of a nun herself. After the death of her parents, she was able reach her goal and joined the convent in Paris in1619. By 1635 Marie was elected prioress, a position she held for thirty years, alternating with others in accordance with tradition. Jean-Baptiste La Barre wrote his biography of Marie Agnes Dauvaine in 1675, ten years after her death. With attractive bookplates to front endpapers of a Ramsgate Monastery and one Mary Barbara Hales. Condition: In a vellum binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed with wear to extremities, particularly to tail of spine. Front hinge slightly strained but firm. Internally, binding loosening slightly in places. Loss to bottom of front free endpaper. Institutional bookplates and a label to front endpapers. Three leaves have been replacedwith very neatly hand-written early copperplate manuscriptversions. Bright and generally clean. Overall: GOOD. Good. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

The Fourth Edition, (6), 348pp complete with the four fine copperplate engraved portraits, contemporary ruled calf with later but not recent rebacking and label, a very good copy, London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Richard Marriott. Sold by most Booksellers, 1675. * FURTHER PHOTOGRAPHS SENT ON REQUEST * * Wing W-672; Coigney p. 386.

Venetia (Venice): Presso Paolo Baglioni, 1675 2 Volumes, complete, bound in 1, in full vellum. This is a beautiful, hard to find, complete copy of the 1675 works of Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, the rich and beautiful Florentine noblewoman who became a Carmelite nun and a revered mystic of the Church. The two volumes have been bound in one with both title pages present, both showing the double-headed eagle. Condition is good. Vellum binding appears to be later with renewed end papers. Vellum is clean with some normal age, handwritten title and date to spine. Paper is clean and strong with just occasional foxing, hint of humidity staining at the top first few pages. Book is a small 4to, pagination is [12] 324; [12], 288 pages. Raccolte dal m.r.p. maestro fra Lorenzo Maria rancaccio carmelitano dellosseruanza di S. Mara della Vita in Napoli e diuise dal medesimo in conque parti; con la vita della medesima santa descritta dal signor d. Vincenzo Puccini. The book is quite scarce. World Cat locates only 3 complete copies, one in Canada and two in libraries in Italy. A very nice copy of a fascinating look at a beautiful Christian mystic, in a scarce early edition, complete and in good condition. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall.

Venetia (Venice): Presso Paolo Baglioni, 1675 2 Volumes, complete, bound in 1, in full vellum. This is a beautiful, hard to find, complete copy of the 1675 works of Saint Mary Magdalene of Pazzi, the rich and beautiful Florentine noblewoman who became a Carmelite nun and a revered mystic of the Church. The two volumes have been bound in one with both title pages present, both showing the double-headed eagle. Condition is good. Vellum binding appears to be later with renewed end papers. Vellum is clean with some normal age, handwritten title and date to spine. Paper is clean and strong with just occasional foxing, hint of humidity staining at the top first few pages. Book is a small 4to, pagination is [12] 324; [12], 288 pages. Raccolte dal m.r.p. maestro fra Lorenzo Maria rancaccio carmelitano dellosseruanza di S. Mara della Vita in Napoli e diuise dal medesimo in conque parti; con la vita della medesima santa descritta dal signor d. Vincenzo Puccini. The book is quite scarce. World Cat locates only 3 complete copies, one in Canada and two in libraries in Italy. A very nice copy of a fascinating look at a beautiful Christian mystic, in a scarce early edition, complete and in good condition. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall.

The Fourth Edition, (6), 348pp complete with the four fine copperplate engraved portraits, contemporary ruled calf with later but not recent rebacking and label, a very good copy, London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Richard Marriott. Sold by most Booksellers, 1675. * FURTHER PHOTOGRAPHS SENT ON REQUEST * * Wing W-672; Coigney p. 386.

Paris: , 1675. Size: 460 × 525 mm. Copperplate engraving with original outline colour. The left margin black neat line is in manuscript, right margin skillfully re-margined ,otherwise in very good condition. A large, striking and most desirable map of the Arabian Peninsular by the French collaboration of Nicolas Sanson and Pierre Mariette, featuring an imposing title cartouche. From the 'Cartes Generales de la Geographie Ancienne et Nouvelle ou les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes ...' atlas. This map achieves an excellent blend of skill, detail, attractiveness and accuracy.

Paris: Printed for the author, 1675 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Cours de chymie contenant la maniere defaire les operations qui sont en usage dans la medecine, par une methode facile... Paris: chez l'autheur, 1675. 16mo. (149x90 mm). [32], 534, [14] pp., with the errata leaf and two final blanks, the last 4 leaves of preface bound at the end. Some bowning and spotting of text, 17th-century French mottled calf, spine gilt (head and foot of spine chipped, some wear to covers, corner bumped), marbled edges, brown stains to last 2 leaves and final endpaper, ownership inscription to lower endpaper. A very good, broad margined copy. Collated, complete. --- Partington III, pp. 28-41; Norman 1329. - RARE FIRST EDITION OF LEMERY'S FAMOUS CHEMICAL TEXTBOOK. "Lemery's highly successful Cours de chymie, which served as the textbook to his popular courses on chemistry, brought French chemical teaching out of the quasi-mystical paracelsian tradition into the mainstream of Cartesian and atomistic natural philosophy" (Norman). It enjoyed unprecedented success and sold, as Fontenelle comments, like a work of romance or satire. Lemery's clear and entertaining presentation of chemistry in corpuscular-mechanist terms contributed to the works overwhelming popularity. It went through numerous editions, and was translated into all the major European languages..

Peter Kolbe (1675-1726) was sent to South Africa with a mission to provide information about the country and to do astronomical and surveying research. This set features two folio volumes, with text in Dutch, and is the first Dutch Edition. Volume 1 - 529 pp. Volume 2 - 449 pp plus extensive index. The books are beautifully bound in stunning 3/4 brown leather with raised spine bands, extensive gilt tooling, leather corners, and gilt rule transitions over marbled paper covered boards. Top edges gilt. The contents bear 2 engraved titles, 1 portrait, 6 folding maps, and 46 engraved plates (two folding). In Volume 2 the half-title and engraved title are misbound between pages 24 and 25. First published in Germany in 1719 as Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum, the book "professes to be a complete account of the Cape Colony and its inhabitants... His writings were the basis of nearly everything that was published concerning South Africa during the next half century. To those who can compare them with official records of the time, they are unquestionably of very great value, but others should be careful not to rely too much upon them. The handsomest edition is the Dutch translation entitled Naaukeurigie... published in Amsterdam in two great volumes in 1727... There is no good translation of Kolbe's work in English that I know of". (Theal) The bindings are in fine condition with only the slightest hints of shelf wear at the bottom edges. The contents are extremely clean with all illustrations and maps intact. We note no spotting and only light occasional browning. A gorgeous,
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London. 1675.. Broadside, 22 x 14 1/2 inches, printed on two sheets. Old fold lines. Repaired with tissue on verso along vertical fold. A few other small tears or tissue repairs. Very good. A rare broadside, announcing the decree of the English government that all foreign goods destined for British colonies must first pass through England, a policy of mercantilism later termed the "triangle trade." "This program permitted the profits from colonial trade and commerce to center in England, promoted British shipping, and enabled the British government to support itself by taxing this trade as it flowed through England" (DAH III:374). The English government began its mercantilist policies under the Commonwealth government, in a series of "navigation acts" which regulated English trade. The first Navigation Act, passed in 1651, targeted Dutch commerce. It stipulated that only English ships could carry freight into English territories, and that if a ship was not English, then it could only carry goods from the country from whence it hailed - i.e., Dutch ships could only import Dutch goods, etc. Further Acts passed in 1660 and 1663, under the Restoration government of Charles II, isolated trade even further, mandating that British colonial goods only be imported to England and forbidding English trade on anything other than English vessels. This policy of trade, which was continued for the next two hundred years, marked the ascent of British colonial mercantilism and planted the seeds of discontent which resulted in the American Revolution one hundred years later. The present proc
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Reggio:: Prospero Vedrotti, , 1675. Folio. Folio (360 x 240 mm). [6] ff., 137, [7] pp. Additional etched title, etched portrait of the dedicatee, 14-year old Francesco II dEste, Duke of Modena, and thirteen etched plates by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, all but three double-sheet and folding, the fourth plate with large engraved overslip attached at top, the sixth plate printed from two copperplates on a single fold-out sheet, after Oratio Talami, Francesco Torri, Carlo Virginio Draghi, Giacomo Carboni, Prospero Manzini, Cristoforo Cattelli and Michele Augusta. Woodcut initials. An unpressed, full-sized copy, with dark impressions of the plates; occasional marginal dampstaining, a few sheets discolored, a couple of plates with short tears along gutters causing slight loss to signatures or rule borders, marginal worm track in quires G and H touching third plate; binding wrinkled, soiled, and torn along upper board edge, upper inner hinge splitting. Contemporary vellum over flexible boards. Provenance: Flaminio Bonzagni di Reg[gio Emilia], contemporary ownership inscription at foot of engraved title; Hippolyte Destailleur (1822-1893), bookplate; his 1891 catalogue, no. 297.***& & ONLY EDITION, an enchanting pictorial record of the floats and monuments produced for the ceremonial coronation in 1674 of the Madonna della Ghiara, a painting in the eponymous Basilica della Madonna della Ghiara, built in Reggio Emilia at the end of the 16th century to honor the miracles performed by a votive image of the Virgin. The description by Certani, a Lateran Abbot and philosophy
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Peter Kolbe (1675-1726) was sent to South Africa with a mission to provide information about the country and to do astronomical and surveying research. This set features two folio volumes, with text in Dutch, and is the first Dutch Edition.Â Volume 1 - 529 pp.Â Volume 2 - 449 pp plus extensive index. The books are beautifully bound in stunning 3/4 brown leather with raised spine bands, extensive gilt tooling, leather corners, and gilt rule transitions over marbled paper covered boards.Â Top edges gilt.Â The contents bear 2 engraved titles, 1 portrait, 6 folding maps, and 46 engraved plates (two folding). In Volume 2 the half-title and engraved title are misbound between pages 24 and 25.Â First published in Germany in 1719 as Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum, the book "professes to be a complete account of the Cape Colony and its inhabitants... His writings were the basis of nearly everything that was published concerning South Africa during the next half century.Â To those who can compare them with official records of the time, they are unquestionably of very great value, but others should be careful not to rely too much upon them.Â The handsomest edition is the Dutch translation entitled Naaukeurigie... published in Amsterdam in two great volumes in 1727... There is no good translation of Kolbe's work in English that I know of".Â (Theal)Â The bindings are in fine condition with only the slightest hints of shelf wear at the bottom edges.Â The contents are extremely clean with all illustrations and maps intact.Â We note no spotting and only light occasional browning.Â
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[Germany]: Theophili Goebelii/Joannis Schonigkii, 1675.. First Edition. Full leather cover. G- : in good (minus) condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily rubbed with wear to extremities and spine, Ex library copy with book stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland to the title page. Inner hinges weak but holding. Scattered foxing. Ink inscription to fep. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 130pp + index; 74pp + index. Twelve engraved plates bound in to the rear; additional decorations. Two volumes bound as one. Woodcut title page vignette; woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials. Date of publication precedes publisher and printer statement on title page. In two parts (Hecatostea I and Hecatostea II), each with its own half-title page, pagination and register. Title page followed by a four-page dedication to the "Societas Naturae Curiosorum in Germania" and a two-page preface. Text in Latin with Greek and Hebrew quotes.

Amsterdam, 1675. Hand colored copper plate engraved decorative sea chart of the Russian Arctic, oriented east, from De Wit's 'Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas'. Original color with the green beautifully toned brown, to confirm original color. Showing Mare Album and Lap Landt at the lower right, and Nova Zemla at the top. With a highly decorative cartouche at the upper right, with a hunting scene of funny looking polar bears and walrus; compass roses and rhumb lines. The oceans include several sailing ships as well as whaling ships, whaling long boats and two whales. Image size: 22 1/4 x 19 1/2". Paper size: 24 1/2 x 21". Light damp marks at margins, no where near the image, very good condition.

G- : in good (minus) condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily rubbed with wear to extremities and spine, Ex library copy with book stamp of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland to the title page. Inner hinges weak but holding. Scattered foxing. Ink inscription to fep First Edition Full leather cover 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 130pp + index; 74pp + index. Twelve engraved plates bound in to the rear; additional decorations. Two volumes bound as one. Woodcut title page vignette; woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials. Date of publication precedes publisher and printer statement on title page. In two parts (Hecatostea I and Hecatostea II), each with its own half-title page, pagination and register. Title page followed by a four-page dedication to the "Societas Naturae Curiosorum in Germania" and a two-page preface. Text in Latin with Greek and Hebrew quotes.

Antwerpen, Joseph Jacobs, 1675. 4to (198 x 160mm). pp. (38), 396, (20), with engraved frontispiece, 1 folded engraved portrait and 36 (many folded) engraved plates. Contemporary vellum, old handwritten title on spine. Scarce first edition, a reissue appeared 1712. "First edition of the first separate general work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties. L'Escluse has done a study called 'Fungorum in Pannonis Observatorum Historia' which was first published as part of his 'Rariorum Plantarum Historia', 1601. However, according to Nissen, L'Escluse's original manuscript for this treatise with its eighty-seven original drawings had been lost by the publisher, so they had to use other illustrations for the 1611 edition, and these were quite inaccurate. Afterwards the lost manuscript reappeared and Sterbeeck used it as a basis for his work, adding much new material of his own" (Hunt 341). "Frans van Sterbeeck, a Flemish priest of noble extraction, was born and died in Antwerp where he lived for the greater part of his life. During the eight years following his ordination in 1655, while suffering from a chronic illness, he returned his attention to botany, with particular reference to fungi and soon became a recognized expert. He was on friendly terms with other Flemish botanists and in May 1663 was visited by John Ray who admired the rare plants in van Sterbeeck's garden. It was in 1672 that Adriaan David, an Antwerp pharmacist and amateur botanist (he contributed a sonnet to the collection of adulatory tributes to the author which prefaces the 'Theatrum fungorum'),
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